In the Assurance dissertation (next post down) I failed to mention a crucial point. In the Catholic position the include quotes from the Olivet discourse Matthew chapter 24 &25. Christ lived during the age of the law and his life reflects that. The age of grace does not begin until the resurrection and that period ends with the rapture of the church. The end times that Jesus speaks of during the Olivet discourse where he says that we must endure until the end is a state we are all in after the church age, or dispensation of grace.
When studying scripture one has to determine to whom the scripture is speaking and of what period of time is referenced. Some scripture is written to Israel only, some to the lost, some to the saved, some during the period of the law and faith some during the period of grace and some during the end times after the church has been removed.
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